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Sarah Morelli

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About Me

I'm a student/teacher/performer of North Indian classical dance (Kathak) and music (vocal and sarode). My teachers include two incomparable world renowned masters of North India: Kathak master Pandit Chitresh Das (www.kathak.org) and legendary maestro Ali Akbar Khan (www.aacm.org). Look for me, tabla player Jason Fellin and sarode player Megan Yalkut in Denver/Boulder.

Officially I'm an ethnomusicologist by trade - it's a field combining anthropology and the study of music, which means I get to do these and other things I enjoy and put them on my c.v. too: music, dance, study languages, read, write and explore the meanings of real people making music and dance... and work as an arts advocate.

Check out this video of the Chitresh Das Dance Company performing Kathak Yoga!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/24/2007
Band Website: look for Pandit Chitresh Das on YouTube*
Influences: Pandit Chitresh Das (let me tell you about his practice of "Kathak Yoga": he counts and sings the rhythmic cycle, plays tabla and dances at the same time!); Pandit Das in collaboration with Tap star Jason Samuels Smith, sarode maestro Ali Akbar Khansahib, Nikhil Banerjee, Shweta Jhaveri, Baaba Maal, Positive Black Soul, Mahealani Uchiyama, Awadi, Lamine Toure and Group Saloum, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Erykah Badu, Los Orishas, Calle 13, Manu Chau, Ricardo Lemvo, Vusi Mahlesela, Burning Airlines, Mirah, Whiskeytown, Silvio Rodriguez, Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective, Zola, locally: Debajo del Aqua, Quemando!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None